Shipping-package.



'ivirn 'arnwr FFICEO JEFFREY T. FERRES, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO J. WV. SEFTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF ANDERSON, INDIANA, AND CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

'sHiPPiiae-raok/ies SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters lPatent No. 695,201, dated March 1 1, 1902.

Application filed August 12, 1901. Serial No. 71,793. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JEFFREY T. FERRns, a citizen of the United States,residing at Anderson, in the county of Madison, in the State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shipping-Packages, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates more particularly to boxes or packages formed of paper-board and adapted for the reception and shipment of bottles containing liquids, and which has for its object the provision of a light and cheap box or package for this purpose which will efliciently protect the bottles from breakage in the handling of the package.

To this end my package comprises an outer rectangular open ended box, preferably formed of heavy corrugated paper, a second similar but slightly smaller open-ended box adapted to be inserted within the first-mentioned box in such manner that two opposite sides of the latter will close the two open ends of the inner box, and a separate bottom insertible within the inner box and provided with upwardly-extending flanges, which, with the sides of the inner box itself, form a side wall of double thickness as high as such flanges extend, so that with the outer box the lower ends of the bottles in the package are protected on two sides of the box by three thicknesses of material.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the outer box; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the inner box in position relatively to the outer box to be inserted in the latter; Fig. 3, a perspective view of the separate bottom adapted to be inserted in the inner box, and Fig. 4: a vertical section of the completely-assembled package filled with bottles.

The same letters of reference are employed to indicate like parts in the several views.

The rectangular open-ended box A of Fig. 1 is preferably formed of a single strip of heavy doublefaced corrugated papersuitably scored or creased to bend at the corners of the box and having its free ends secured together by a piece of cloth a, pasted thereto. The inner box B is substantially the same as the box A, but of sufflciently less size to permit it to snugly fit within the box A. The bottom C, likewise formed of heavy corrugated paper and of suitable size and shape to fit snugly within the inner box B, is provided upon its four sides with upturned flanges c, which fit against four sides of the box B when the bottom C is inserted in the latter. These flanges c are made of awidth or height corresponding to the bodies of the bottles to be placed in the package, it being unnecessary to extend them higher than this, since the reduced neck portions of the bottles are not subjected to extraneous shocks. The bottom C is inserted in the open-ended box B and pressed downward therein until its said box. The bottles are then placed within the box, the latter then inserted in the openended box A, as in Fig. i. The employment of the bottom C greatly facilitates the insertion of the bottles in the package, since it serves to sustain them in the box B while the latter is being inserted in the outer box A. The bottom shown in Fig. 3 is a shallower one or provided with narrower flanges than that shown in section in Fig. l, in which latter the flanges of the bottom extend as high as the bodies of the bottles there illustrated.

The provision of the bottom member C of the package not only protects the sides of the bottles by an extra thickness of material, but also provides a bottom of double thickness, which serves as an additional protection to the bottom of the package. Where it is not desired that the lower portion of the package shall have walls of triple thickness on two opposite sides, the flanges c of the bottom may be omitted on these sides and retained on the other two sides, so that the lower port-ion of the package will have simply a double wall upon all four sides, said double wall being composed on two opposite sides of the pack age of the walls of the inner and outer boxes A B and upon the other two sides of the two flanges of the bottom C and the adjacent outer walls of the inner box 13.

gated paper-board and;havin g the four flanges 0 extending upwardly along the inner walls of the inner box whereby the bottom constitutes a support for the contained articles while being packed and the flanges thereof a protection or packing for such articles; substantially as described.

JEFFREY T. FERRES.

Witnesses:

ALFRED M. WEEDEN, EDGAR E. HENDEE. 

